Afternoon Bites: Typewriter Art, James Baldwin, Muriel Spark’s Essays, Cold Beat, and More

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Hyperallergic revisits the 1975 book Typewriter Art.

The Times on teaching the works of James Baldwin in schools.

Elisabeth Donnelly on Muriel Spark’s essay collection The Informed Air.

Marc Tracy on Thomas Piketty and Harvard University Press’s unlikely bestsellers.

Grass Widow’s Hannah Lew has a new band, Cold Beat, with an album due out in July. We interviewed her last year about said band’s debut EP.

Pitchfork looks at the new EP from Weston alums Beach Slang.

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